We don't really have a set bedtime for LO, i usually base it on what time he's woken up from his last nap. His awake times have lengthened recently so now he doesn't go down for his second nap until 2ish and is up between 3-4pm...
I try to get him down around 7:30 (3.5h from last nap). But I don't know if that is good timing or if it should be shorter/longer (his sleep has been crappy recently so it's hard to tell if he's overtired on top of teething, WW etc)
Thanks!
squash / 13764 posts
At that age, LO was napping at 9am and 2pm. His afternoon nap was usually done by 3:15 or so, and he was in bed by 7! But he was an awful sleeper til 13 months so maybe not the best example 
pomegranate / 3192 posts
@mrsjyw: thanks! I think I might be stretching it a bit when his awake time is closer to 3.5-4 hours. It's soo hard to fit everything in - going to the park to play, dinner, bath, bedtime...
@hilsy85: LO is sort of on the same schedule as that since he usually naps at 9 and 2. He was a decent sleeper but lately it's been soo crappy. I'm getting way too exhausted!
cherry / 138 posts
roughly 3 hours. We are on a 3-3-3 schedule with 2 naps most days. We tried 4, but apparently LO can't really handle that yet. When we did 4 hours, bedtime was terrible, so I think she was overtired.
kiwi / 661 posts
My LO is on a weird schedule and no matter how we try and adjust it, it won't change!
He wakes up between 6 and 7 depending on when he goes to the bathroom. We've tried to get this to between 7 and 8 but no luck so far.
He does down at 10-1030 for two hours then goes down again at 4-430 for 1.5 to two hours.
He is ready for his night night routine at 7-730 even if he has only been up for an hour since the last nap.
Whatever, He's the boss and this is what keeps him happy!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
@QBbride: that was our strategy too... at that age it was same as you - around 3.5 hours after last nap!
pomegranate / 3392 posts
My son is this exact age and recently has dropped a third nap. He's usually up from his afternoon nap b/t 4 and 5, and his bedtime is b/t 8 and 8:30, so right around 4 hours. We loosely adhere to the 2-3-4 nap schedule most days.
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6581 posts
Over 4 hours, usually. She wakes up from her last nap around 2 or 230, and doesn't go to sleep until almost 7. I don't know how she manages to stay cheerful for that long. I wish she would take a longer second nap! She's almost 10 months.
grapefruit / 4291 posts
Miss A was down to one nap at that age and usually napped from 1100-1400 (give or take half an hour) and went to bed at around 1900-1930 so up to six hours awake time before bed.
pear / 1986 posts
@QBbride: My A is the same age as your little one and we recently dropped our third late afternoon nap, but switched from a 7pm bedtime to a 6pm bedtime. So on average she is up for about 3-3.5 hours before bedtime. She couldn't make it to 7pm anymore and was waking during the night, so I decided to try the super early bedtime (as suggested here: http://www.hellobee.com/2014/04/09/the-glorious-early-bed-time/) and it worked for us! She is sleeping through the night again (most of the time 
)!
pomegranate / 3192 posts
@GreenThumb: thanks for the link! It's funny, the 2 nights he's ever slept 12+ hours straight are when he went to bed between 5:30-6. Maybe we need to go back to that again?!
So... He woke up at 2:50pm from his PM nap so I think I should start his bedtime routine at 5:45ish for bedtime at 6:30. The issue is hubby doesn't get home from work till 5 and getting the baby to bed that early seems next to impossible !
@MoonMoon: it's soo interesting how different babies' sleep can be. My son dropped his 3rd nap sometime between 6-7 months. It became too much of a fight is I got rid of it.
cantaloupe / 6164 posts
She was doing her first nap around 9 and her second nap around 3, then going to bed around 7:30-8.
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